Public Policy

From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.

Do big government debts threaten our collective well-being? Are there limits to debt growth? Can a big, important reserve currency country like the United States really go broke—and what would that look like?

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation....

Who works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers.

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has dramatically empowered people in all walks of life, from artists to business executives to policymakers. But as the technology becomes more powerful and more ubiquitous, it is giving rise to urgent questions about the future of humanity.

Acclaimed journalist Megan Greenwell’s Bad Company is a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers.

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck.

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York's skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences - even for the white voters they promise to help....

In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood....

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic", The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time....

An exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply about a country he loves but had lost touch with.

In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer.

Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities.

From the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system.

The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men"....

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide....

Originally publishing in 1944, The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production....

The author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization....

An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States’ most dangerous enemies takes listeners inside the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary.

An award-winning journalist's exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics.

Acclaimed journalist Megan Greenwell’s Bad Company tells the hidden story of private equity through the experiences of four American workers who watched as private equity upended their employers and communities: a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and an affordable housing organizer.

Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of the dollar—how it beat out the Japanese yen, the Soviet ruble, and the euro—and the challenges it faces today from crypto and the Chinese yuan, the end of reliably low inflation and interest rates, political instability, and the fracturing of the dollar bloc.

Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old hometown. Suddenly, he was the guy with the goods, delivering dog food and respirators and lube and heirloom tomato seeds and Lord of the Rings replica swords. He transported chicken feed to grandmothers living alone in the mountains and forded a creek with a refrigerator on his back. But while he carried the mail, he also carried a whole lot more than just the mail.

Michael Grunwald, bestselling author of The Swamp and The New New Deal, builds his narrative around a brilliant, relentless, unforgettable food and land expert named Tim Searchinger. He chronicles Searchinger’s uphill battles against bad science and bad politics, both driven by the overwhelming influence of agricultural interests. And he illuminates a path that could save our planetary home for ourselves and future generations—through better policy, technology, and behavior, as well as a new land ethic recognizing that every acre matters.

Noticing: An Essential Reader is the definitive collection of Steve Sailer’s most incisive observations on culture, immigration, class, politics, and human biodiversity. Sailer’s unique approach to the most controversial topics of our time, combining good old-fashioned common sense with a researcher’s eye to the data, has allowed him critical insights into American life that few others see and virtually no one else dares speak out loud.

Particles of Truth is a riveting account of the discovery of the critical health effects of air pollution told by Arden Pope and Douglas Dockery, who have been at the forefront of air pollution and health research for four decades. With an insightful foreword by former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, this compelling book provides an inside look at groundbreaking scientific research and ensuing political and public-policy battles. It presents evidence that air pollution is a major contributor to disease and death and that reducing air pollution saves lives.

Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It all sounds pointless, silly, or even disgusting. Maybe it is. But in The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog, Carly Anne York shows how unappreciated, overlooked, and simply curiosity-driven science has led to breakthroughs big and small. Got wind power? You might have humpback whales to thank. Know anything about particle physics? Turns out there is a ferret close to the heart of it all.

The first of its kind, Three Weeks in July provides the definitive narrative on the harrowing events of 7th July 2005 and the aftermath, where chaos, confusion and terror reigned on the streets of London. A true-crime investigation woven together with high-politics and seminal history, the book will intricately explore the untold accounts of the Met’s and Government’s response to 7/7, and their desperate attempts to prevent a possible second wave.

I Do Solemnly Swear... Some oaths are made in uniform. Others are made in love. This book was written for both. But above all, it was written for them — my wife and daughter, still waiting on the other side of a locked gate in Iran, still hoping the nation I served remembers we exist. I Do Solemnly Swear... is not just a veteran’s memoir. It is a battle cry wrapped in sacred devotion. A letter home that was never answered. A warrior’s plea to a nation that has lost its honor but not its soul. I swore the oath. I wore the uniform. I kept the faith. But when I turned to the State ...

Over 50 and Out in the Cold: The Senior Survival Blueprint By Michael Morton Aging in America shouldn’t be a death sentence—but for millions, it feels like one. This uncompromising survival manual pulls no punches. It’s not about retirement dreams. It’s about staying alive when the safety net vanishes. Whether you’re over 50 and barely hanging on, or you’ve seen the system quietly crush someone you love, this book gives you what government brochures won’t: the truth. How seniors fall into homelessness—and how to claw back control Medical realities no one warns you about ...

This isn’t a manifesto. It’s a dissection. “The Big Beautiful Bill” tears into the 900-page federal law that was sold to the public as reform—but operates more like entrenchment. It rewrites eligibility, compresses benefits, and cements enforcement without ever admitting who it helps and who it buries. With the precision of a surgeon and the bluntness of a veteran policy analyst who’s seen this game before, this book walks through the full scope of the law’s reach—SNAP, Medicaid, taxes, immigration, energy, education—no section left unscrutinized. There’s no fluff here. ...

The Deep State Uncovered V: Big Ag Unmasking the Corporate Empire Controlling Your Food, Health, and Future What if everything you’ve been told about your food—how it’s grown, who controls it, and what it does to your body—is a lie? In The Deep State Uncovered V: Big Ag, former SWAT medic and investigator Mike Morton exposes the dark underbelly of the global agricultural-industrial complex. From factory farms to genetically modified seeds, from corrupt regulators to global monopolies, this book pulls no punches. Through powerful investigative reporting and a no-nonsense style, ...

Palantir Technologies isn’t a household name—but it should be. Quietly embedded in the most powerful institutions on earth, this private tech firm builds software that influences warfare, policing, immigration, public health, and corporate surveillance. Co-founded by Peter Thiel, funded by the CIA, and embraced by governments and corporations across the globe, Palantir is reshaping society without public debate or democratic oversight. This book is not an exposé in the traditional sense. It’s a clear-eyed, unsentimental examination of how one company leveraged fear, secrecy, and ...

This isn’t just another book about immigration. Citizenship for Sale tells a story most Americans haven’t heard about how dangerous individuals aren’t sneaking in through the shadows. They’re walking in through the front door. With clean passports, legal visas, and money to spend, they’re using our own laws to get in, blend in, and disappear. This book doesn’t rely on theory or headlines. It’s grounded in facts government reports, leaked files, real-world arrests, and years of firsthand research. It shows how terrorists, criminals, and operatives from hostile regimes are ...

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Across American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order. From the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious diseases spreading in overcrowded tenements and the vast environmental contamination caused by industrialization, and through climate change and pandemics in the twenty-first century, those in power have left others behind.

Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change. In some cases, women make up almost 90 percent of casualties during dangerous climate events, and the majority of those displaced in the aftermath are women. Despite this disparity, women are underrepresented at every level of decision-making about the future of our planet. In Intertwined, writer and wildlife biologist Rebecca Kormos elevates the voices of women working to prevent the climate crisis, weaving together their stories to make a powerful case for why women are essential to changing our current trajectory.

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees.

Hong’s journey in renewable energy is a testament to grit, resilience, and the power of taking action. From his early years in Bolivia to studying abroad in the U.S. and building a career across the Americas and beyond, he has navigated the complexities of international business to become a leader in sustainable energy. Fuerza offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at large-scale energy projects, from negotiating multi-million-dollar deals to overcoming setbacks in new markets.

He watches in disbelief, live on television, as the new administration celebrates the signing of the Affordable Care Act. It becomes the tipping point that triggered a veteran insurance broker to take a walk outside, stand alone in his front yard, and consider his losses; the fall of his massive insurance agency, the income he depended on to support his family decimated, and his marriage in irreconcilable chaos. He decides to take matters into his own hands.

Define the Problem: A Step-by-Step Approach to Defining Transport Challenges is a practical guide for early-career transport professionals facing the complexities of modern transport challenges. The book, part of the Smart Transport Strategy Guides series, aims to equip professionals with the critical skill of problem definition in the context of planning infrastructure, developing policy, and advising decision-makers. It emphasizes that in a world of increasing complexity and rising expectations, accurately defining transport problems is crucial. Key takeaways from the book include: ...

After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election.

Farming Humans: American Inequality and Profit Over People in the Age of Oligarchy—now in a powerful, unabridged audiobook narrated by Eric Leo himself. Join a frontline voice who has lived the realities of corporate “farming” and structural injustice, as he guides you through America’s hidden mechanisms of exploitation—and equips you to push back. In eight hard-hitting chapters, you’ll learn: How the Federal Reserve’s secret origins and debt-creation cycle fuel boom-bust crashes that enrich elites and saddle everyday Americans with “debt bondage.”

Counter-Operative Clarity is a clear and direct manual for people who want to stay mentally strong in a world shaped by artificial intelligence and predictive systems. It is not a book about the future. It is about what is already happening in the systems we use every day—search engines, apps, smart tools, and online platforms. These systems are not just helpful tools. They are trained to watch, learn from, and influence how you think, feel, and act. This book is not about improving your productivity or helping you relax. It will not tell you to unplug or slow down. Instead, it shows you ...

Accountability after Economic Crisis reconstructs the captivating story of how different nations responded to the 2008 economic crisis, one of the most challenging economic downturns in modern history. The book focuses on puzzling cross-country variations in policies of accountability.